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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 37 sec.) ; 312962312 bytes |
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Burma is at an historic moment of change as it pushes ahead with reforms. One woman has come to symbolise the struggle of Burma's people to be free - Aung San Suu Kyi. She has withstood almost 20 years of house arrest to become an international icon of peaceful resistance and hope in the face of oppression. This documentary captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma. It tells Suu Kyi's extraordinary personal and political story, of how she turned from Oxford housewife into national leader and then into one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.Filmed over a year in Burma, the film is built around an extended interview with Suu Kyi, with her colleagues in Burma and with her family and friends outside. Hillary Clinton describes the impact of meeting this woman, who she had long admired, as 'seeing a long lost friend'.Suu Kyi talks of sadness but no regrets over the decision she took, while her colleagues outline clearly the ongoing gamble that they are all taking in compromising with the regime. The film also uses a range of extraordinary unseen archive - not least the moment she meets her husband and son for the first time after five years. (From the UK, in English and Burmese) (Documentary) CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2012-11-28 at 21:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Political prisoners -- Biography.
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Political prisoners -- Family relationships.
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Women political prisoners.
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Myanmar.
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Streaming video
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Aris, Kim, contributor
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Aris, Michael, contributor
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Aung San, Suu Kyi, contributor
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Carey, Peter, contributor
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Christopher, Robin, contributor
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Clinton, Hillary, contributor
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Oo, Tin, contributor
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Thu, Moe, contributor
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Khin Khin Win, contributor
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